sanctions

The Hamilton Coalition To Stop The War and the Mouvement Québécois pour la Paix today have issued a joint statement in response to the Trudeau government’s official reply to our parliamentary petition e-2630. That reply (copied to the next page) was delivered by Rob Oliphant, Parliamentary-Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. …

Take action and sign the petition – click here! To: President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and all Members of the U.S. Congress: We write to you because we are deeply concerned about the impact of U.S. sanctions on many countries that are suffering the dire consequences of COVID-19. The …

It’s shameful that, after nearly a decade of war, the European Union takes the step of sanctioning the new foreign minister of Syria, Mr. Faisal Mekdad. This shows that the EU is still America’s poodle, playing along with the US Coalition’s continuing war of attrition against Syria. And what is …

The following interview, by Aaron Maté, is republished from The Grayzone:  Crippling US sanctions imposed under the Caesar Act are decimating war-ravaged Syrian civilians, are illegal, and should be lifted, the UN Special Rapporteur on sanctions says.   An independent United Nations expert is calling on the US to lift …

The following article, by Philip Giraldi, is republished from the Strategic Culture Foundation:  More sanctions, by all means. More grief and suffering and more people around the world wondering what exactly the United States is doing. I am a recipient of regular, usual weekly, emails from the Department of the …

Russia is trying to bust illegal western (including Canadian) sanctions on Syria. The practical effect of these “coercive economic measures” is that Syrian families have too few jobs,  little food to put on the table this Christmas, and even smaller amounts of cooking and heating oil. All of this, during …

The following article is republished from Cosmos Chronicle: The US Embassy in Syria threatened to punish anyone who dared to help suffering Syrians rebuild from 9+ years of US regime change attacks, including theft of oil fields and refineries and 1/3 of Syria’s best agricultural land along the Euphrates River. …

The following article, by SSM Steering Committee member Ken Stone, was initially published at rabble.ca:  On March 23, UN Secretary-General António Guterres appealed to G20 leaders: “I am encouraging the waiving of (economic) sanctions imposed on countries to ensure access to food, essential health supplies, and COVID-19 medical support. This is the time …

Sep 29, 2015, New Eastern Outlook The news that the United States asked both Greece and Bulgaria to block Russian flights over their air space headed for Syria is a logical extension of the criminality of the aggression against Syria being conducted by the NATO powers and their allies in …